BLOCK 31 UNIT

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the BLOCK 31 (DEVONIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 279560District 08Field 09358450Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.5 M
Oct 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$217 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 87 leases and 441 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-10-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
800 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-12-12.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FORMULA IS SUSPENDED AND ALL OVERPRODUCTION IS CANCELLED.

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition2,837 bbl$163,372
GasProduction734,489 Mcf$2,363,294
Total$2,526,666

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 31.4684, -102.4586. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.46844, -102.45862 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,100 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 9,100 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2009
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10333550A 15A9,100 ftFeb 2009

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (128)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

128 months

May 202624106.413.05$225
Apr 2026194,39598.932.87$14,492
Mar 2026295,99989.753.15$21,496
Feb 2026255,88063.503.75$23,639
Jan 2026375,56059.138.00$46,656
Dec 2025335,13256.664.41$24,519
Nov 2025215,14558.593.93$21,432
Oct 2025304,63059.383.30$17,083
Sep 2025214,13462.743.08$14,038
Aug 2025203,20263.933.01$10,932
Jul 2025193,47066.743.32$12,772
Jun 2025102,73766.483.13$9,228
May 202591,52160.553.23$5,461
Apr 2025101,81862.363.54$7,065
Mar 2025191,02567.704.27$5,661
Feb 2025121,26570.884.34$6,342
Jan 2025212,25974.324.28$11,226
Dec 2024233,31868.993.12$11,943
Nov 2024244,03569.052.20$10,528
Oct 2024134,74771.372.28$11,758
Sep 202484,06669.612.36$10,170
Aug 2024114,35575.632.06$9,819
Jul 2024174,61579.932.15$11,265
Jun 2024102,55378.082.63$7,505
May 2024194,53178.812.20$11,459
Apr 2024193,08984.451.66$6,730
Mar 2024274,09880.301.55$8,500
Feb 2024243,42376.091.78$7,932
Jan 2024193,30573.023.30$12,286
Dec 2023193,51971.262.61$10,541
Nov 2023184,08577.892.81$12,871
Oct 2023285,09085.443.09$18,107
Sep 2023345,85889.042.74$19,049
Aug 2023192,56680.522.67$8,388
Jul 2023213,53374.852.64$10,905
Jun 2023113,83868.962.26$9,427
May 2023143,68070.622.23$9,186
Apr 2023295,14278.122.24$13,772
Mar 2023354,84272.852.39$14,137
Feb 2023314,34875.112.47$13,049
Jan 2023224,98576.533.39$18,571
Dec 202284,11076.415.73$24,158
Nov 2022173,96185.005.65$23,810
Oct 2022154,04487.185.86$25,021
Sep 2022124,03384.888.16$33,943
Aug 2022145,58494.529.13$52,289
Jul 2022126,121101.587.54$47,384
Jun 2022146,569115.097.98$54,013
May 2022175,674109.378.43$49,708
Apr 2022135,205104.226.84$36,945
Mar 2022125,691108.885.08$30,196
Feb 2022204,73291.054.86$24,813
Jan 2022224,51581.844.54$22,288
Dec 2021213,23571.323.90$14,111
Nov 2021215,81977.435.24$32,099
Oct 2021206,74579.795.71$40,136
Sep 2021165,16869.865.35$28,771
Aug 2021175,91266.024.22$26,074
Jul 202174,12170.783.98$16,906
Jun 202146,29469.493.38$21,556
May 20212710,73463.483.02$34,106
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20212061.302.72$123
Feb 2021172,74557.805.55$16,212
Jan 2021325,93550.412.81$18,292
Dec 2020256,28644.642.68$17,934
Nov 2020226,81038.772.71$19,285
Oct 2020217,08936.972.48$18,346
Sep 2020217,90537.091.99$16,518
Aug 2020159,80139.982.39$23,976
Jul 2020258,16438.371.83$15,860
Jun 2020287,06334.901.69$12,916
May 2020194,86916.921.81$9,158
Apr 2020214,77514.751.80$8,926
Mar 2020316,96830.341.86$13,875
Feb 2020277,12449.881.98$15,457
Jan 2020277,86757.252.09$18,025
Dec 2019328,52959.012.30$21,542
Nov 2019257,50055.302.75$22,013
Oct 2019238,17353.472.42$20,997
Sep 2019218,11255.052.66$22,712
Aug 2019157,94253.112.30$19,098
Jul 2019188,16256.272.46$21,092
Jun 2019177,11652.782.49$18,625
May 2019228,64558.482.74$24,977
Apr 2019199,12262.632.75$26,282
Mar 2019139,73156.803.06$30,536
Feb 2019269,43850.852.79$27,675
Jan 20193411,14346.033.23$37,537
Dec 20184911,97346.594.19$52,395
Nov 2018736,86052.934.24$32,931
Oct 2018010861.443.40$367
Sep 2018020759.543.11$643
Aug 2018030159.403.07$923
Jul 2018054665.142.93$1,601
Jun 201801,26560.183.08$3,892
May 2018085465.382.90$2,477
Apr 2018030363.842.90$879
Mar 2018857961.222.79$2,103
Feb 2018171,23061.782.77$4,453
Jan 2018151,20762.874.01$5,782
Dec 201772,41957.272.92$7,468
Nov 2017178,60055.423.12$27,760
Oct 20173910,06549.292.98$31,953
Sep 2017519,70947.523.09$32,398
Aug 2017249,53145.373.00$29,724
Jul 2017229,35843.873.09$29,856
Jun 2017279,01142.493.09$28,967
May 2017349,67145.373.26$33,103
Apr 2017579,68147.933.21$33,824
Mar 2017679,76646.772.98$32,272
Feb 2017288,46150.452.95$26,395
Jan 2017489,69849.413.42$35,527
Dec 2016559,97348.763.72$39,810
Nov 2016789,71242.492.64$28,996
Oct 2016239,51346.193.09$30,460
Sep 20161111,34641.553.10$35,637
Aug 2016159,60341.442.92$28,704
Jul 20161510,43341.622.92$31,134
Jun 201688,29845.352.69$22,650
May 2016449,50142.521.99$20,788
Apr 2016508,13936.561.99$18,033
Mar 2016567,71333.011.79$15,686
Feb 2016279,03226.472.06$19,353
Jan 2016399,83327.352.36$24,315
Dec 20152810,18732.362.00$21,294
Nov 2015409,59438.792.17$22,345
Oct 2015269,13143.552.43$23,289

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $106.41 =       $213
Gas                    4 Mcf  × $  3.05 =        $12

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Month total                                     $225

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 08/G/279560 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.